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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1957
Page
1
Treasury reported the national debt at 270,527,171,896.43 dollars as June ends. Net deposits exceeded withdrawals by about 2.7 billion, with trust funds excluded from budget totals and adjustments pending. Secretary Humphrey anticipated a roughly one billion dollar budget surplus.
Army officers will begin an immediate study to locate four Nike guided missile launching sites to protect Cincinnati and area. Maj. Gen. Palmer Edwards said map analysis exists and officers will seek access to land within a two to five mile band for inspection.
Ohio's grand tax duplicate reached 22.98 billion dollars in the last year. State Auditor James A. Rhodes notes the valuation of real estate utilities and tangible personal property is up sharply from ten years ago and vastly higher than a century ago.
A University of Toledo student who stole a typewriter to buy an engagement ring was placed on three years probation by Judge John M. McCabe after the defendant humorously said his girlfriend had placed him on probation.
Cincinnati report says Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co. files suit in common pleas court seeking 3 million dollars against the Communications Workers of America and its locals in Portsmouth Cambridge and Wilmington. Plaintiff alleges property damage exceeding 500000 and claims obscene abuse of workers during the southern Ohio strike. The petition accuses an unlawful conspiracy to coerce the company to meet union demands.
President Eisenhower on Wednesday released about 131 500 pounds of uranium 235 for peaceful atomic uses in the United States. The move brings total earmarked material for the program to about 220 000 pounds or 100 000 kilograms.
A swift Ohio River current delayed laying a new natural gas pipeline for the Olin-Mathieson aluminum development on the Ohio side. Gentry Contracting Co. of Jackson Michigan said efforts to place the line would resume Friday.
AP report recalls lesser known Declaration signers Button Gwinnett George Clymer Josiah Bartlett alongside famous names like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It notes Clymer’s home sacked after signing and Gwinnett’s duel death, while Dickinson refused to sign and Bartlett faced professional censure for a fever cure.
In Washington Court House two counties pursue a male suspect in the Tuesday night murder of 87 year old Mrs. Sarah DeWitt. The victim was found in an upstairs bedroom of her Ohio 62 home, slashed with a hatchet. Witnesses describe a 5 foot 8 man, 145 pounds, 30 to 40, seen near Columbus and fleeing north on U S 3.
Juvenile Judge Albert A. Woldman ordered a Parma woman to clean her house or face workhouse detention after officials found 97 new shirts and 24 bolts of dress material for two teenagers, along with a year’s worth of soiled garments. The 53-year-old mother cited high blood pressure as preventing housework while police described a scene of disarray and neglected chores.
Chicago Daily News reader Edward Small sends a holiday safety note advising against tampering with a bottle marked 5th to avoid danger. The warning uses a playful hypothetical about car cylinders and pallbearers to stress caution on the Fourth of July.
Surgeons credit teamwork for keeping John Krull's heart beating during a June 14 aortic valve operation at Huron Road Hospital. The team used a pacemaker from Western Reserve University while moving Krull on extended cords between floors without losing electrical contact. The device powered during transport, then was removed as the heart resumed normal function. Police officers in East Cleveland aided the move.
Three prisoners attempted to escape the Cuyahoga County Jail but were foiled by sheriff's deputies who captured one inmate cutting a bar on the cell door. The thwarted attempt was disclosed Wednesday.
Cambridge Ohio Dorahn Gibbs 28 of Byesville indicted by Guernsey County Grand Jury for first degree murder in the June 23 shotgun slaying of Alvin Poland 45 of Byesville. Prosecutors seek full penalties under state law. The case proceeds to trial.
Three men charged in the theft of 7000 dollars worth of special strip steel from a Youngstown trucking firm face hearings on August 9 in U S District Court in Toledo.
Ohio townships will share in the first 1957 motor vehicle license money distribution on Friday. A total of 1344 townships will receive $1,879,025, about $79,000 more than at this time last year, allocated by each township’s road mileage.
Ohio Attorney General William Saxbe ruled that the Department of Highways can hire individuals or firms to appraise real estate for purchase or appropriation without competitive bidding.
Ohio prepares for Independence Day with picnics and fireworks as forecasters predict fair skies and warm temperatures though possible thunderstorms in the north. Officials warn of 22 traffic fatalities statewide over the holiday period, with 30 more expected on highways.
In a broad purge Khrushchev ousts Georgi Malenkov Vyacheslav Molotov and four others from key party posts and promotes Georgi Zhukov. The Presidium shrinks to 15 with six holdovers. The move marks Khrushchev’s consolidation of power and signals a stance against Stalinist elements.
A federal district judge ruled that John Stewart Service was improperly discharged on December 14, 1951 by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and ordered his restoration to the State Department as a foreign service officer class 2 with all rights and privileges of continuous service. Service was to be reinstated in the Administrative Special Services Branch, with officials noting his willingness to return.
Two 15 year old boys who escaped from the Wabash Industrial School at Decatur Indiana and stole four cars during their flight were captured Wednesday in a field six miles west of Findlay Ohio.
Khrushchev appears to have sidelined Malenkov Kaganovich Molotov and others from the Soviet Presidium. The shakeup hints at a clash between Stalinists and anti Stalinists, a push for economic reform and a stronger army influence led by Georgi Zhukov, with a conservative, less bloody turn in Kremlin politics.
AP dispatch from Tehran reports a powerful quake across the Caspian basin raising fear of more than a thousand dead. Deaths listed at 750 with over 3000 missing as villages across 50 000 square miles were wrecked.
Virginia Stern 28 who faced murder charges for killing her two children last March and was committed to Westboro State Hospital as mentally ill fled attendants during a nature walk and drowned in a lake according to the Department of Mental Health.
A Russian doctor said on Wednesday that smoking is an absurd survival of the past not fitting the new Communist society. He framed tobacco use as incompatible with the era of progress and socialist health campaigns.
New York State Court of Appeals upholds Angelo LaMarca’s conviction for the kidnap murder of 32 day old Peter Winberger. Sentence of death at Sing Sing remains, with execution scheduled for the week of August 19. The baby was taken from Westbury home and found deceased in a thicket after July 4 abduction.
The Ohio Department of Highways approved relocating four-fifths of a mile of Ohio 75 near New Lexington Perry County. The plan was debated at a public hearing on May 28.
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